Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BLR
NOC	Belarus Olympic Committee
Website	www.noc.by (in Russian and English)
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Competitors	139 (72 men and 67 women) in 20 sports
Flag bearer	Sergey Lishtvan
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 11 Total 17
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Poland (1924–1936)  Soviet Union (1952–1988)  Unified Team (1992)  Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

Belarus competed at the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney,Australia. 139 competitors, 72 men and 67 women, took part in 109 events in 20 sports.^[1] Belarus had its best ever showing both in terms of gold and overall medals at these games. The gold medal result will be later matched in2008.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Yanina Karolchik	Athletics	Women's shot put
Gold	Ellina Zvereva	Athletics	Women's discus
Gold	Ekaterina Karsten	Rowing	Women's single sculls
Silver	Yulia Raskina	Gymnastics	Women's individual all-around
Silver	Tatyana Ananko Tatyana Belan Anna Glazkova Irina Ilyenkova Maria Lazuk Olga Puzhevich	Gymnastics	Women's group all around
Silver	Igor Basinsky	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol
Bronze	Irina Yatchenko	Athletics	Women's discus throw
Bronze	Igor Astapkovich	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Natalya Sazanovich	Athletics	Women's heptathlon
Bronze	Anatoly Laryukov	Judo	Men's half-middleweight
Bronze	Pavel Dovgal	Modern pentathlon	Men's competition
Bronze	Igor Basinsky	Shooting	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Bronze	Lalita Yauhleuskaya	Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol
Bronze	Sergei Martynov	Shooting	Men's 50 metre rifle prone
Bronze	Gennady Oleshchuk	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
Bronze	Sergey Lavrenov	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg
Bronze	Dmitry Debelka	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg

In its second Olympic archery competition, Belarus was represented by two women. They were not as successful as they had been four years earlier, but two of the archers still won in their first matches.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anna Karaseva	Women's individual	629	29	Gallardo (ESP) W 163-162	Yun (KOR) L 152-162	did not advance
Olga Moroz		620	41	Nowicka (POL) L 139-152	did not advance

Men

Road events

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Igor Astapkovich	Hammer Throw	79.81	1Q	79.17
Leonid Cherevko	Discus throw	58.32	33	did not advance
Vladimir Dubrovshchik		64.03	7Q	65.13	7
Vasiliy Kaptyukh		65.90	4Q	67.59	4
Aleksei Lelin	High jump	2.15	34	did not advance
Andrei Mikhnevich	Shot put	19.97	7q	19.48	9
Vladimir Sasimovich	Javelin Throw	78.04	24	did not advance
Ivan Tikhon	Hammer Throw	76.90	10q	79.17	4

Women

Track & road events

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lyudmila Gubkina	Hammer Throw	63.29	10q	67.08	6
Yanina Karolchyk	Shot put	19.36	1Q	20.56
Natallia Safronava	Triple Jump	13.91	15	did not advance
Tatyana Shevchik	High Jump	1.85	30	did not advance
Svetlana Sudak	Hammer Throw	63.83	8q	64.21	10
Olga Tsander		NM		did not advance
Irina Yatchenko	Discus Throw	62.72	5q	65.20
Ellina Zvereva		64.81	1Q	68.40

Combined events -Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Points	Rank
Natalya Sazanovich	Result	13.45	1.84	14.79	24.12	6.50	43.97	02:16.41	6527
	Points	1058	1029	847	969	1007	744	873

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sergey Bykovsky	Light welterweight	Brin (PHI) W 8-3	Suleymanoglu (TUR) W 8-8	Abdullaev (UZB) L 6-9	did not advance		5

Men

Women

Men

Women

Four fencers, all men, represented Belarus in 2000.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Andrey Murashko	Individual épée	Bloom (USA) L 4-8	did not advance					38
Vladimir Pchenikin		BYE	Milanoli (ITA) L 9-15	did not advance				31
Vitaly Zakharov		BYE	Sang-Yeop (KOR) L 14-15	did not advance				24
Vitaly Zakharov Andrey Murashko Vladimir Pchenikin	Team épée	—N/a		Austria W 45-44	South Korea L 44-45	Australia W 45-34	Germany L 37-41	6
Dmitry Lapkes	Individual sabre	Samir (EGY) W 15-7	Careta (ITA) W 15–9	Covaliu (ROU) L 11–15	did not advance			15

Men

Team

Individual finals

Women

Team

Individual finals

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Natik Bagirov	−60 kg	BYE	Lourenço (BRA) W 0101-0100	Ismayilov (AZE) L 0010-1100	did not advance						17
Anatoly Laryukhov	−73 kg	BYE	Kheder (FRA) W 1000-0010	Velasco (PER) W 1000-0010	Bilodid (UKR) W 1000-0100	Maddaloni (ITA) L 0100-0000	BYE			Pedro (USA) W 1000-0000
Siarhei Kukharenka	−81 kg	BYE	Chen (TPE) W 1000-0000	Kwak (PRK) L 0010-0010	did not advance						17
Leonid Svirid	−100 kg	BYE	Ivan (ROU) L 0000-0100	did not advance							17
Ruslan Scharapov	+100 kg	—N/a	Shinohara (JPN) L 0000-1000	did not advance			Berduta (KAZ) W 1000-0100	Sánchez (CUB) W 1000-0100	Pan (CHN) W 0100-0011	Pertelson (EST) L 0000-1000	5

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Points	Rank	MP Points	Wins	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Pavel Dovgal	Men's	186	1	1168	10	17	760	2:04.62	4	1254	30	1	1070	9:38.75	12	1086	5338
Janna Choubenok	Women's	179	19	1084	12	18	840	2:25.89	11	1142	90	9	1010	11:17.89	11	1010	5086	6

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Rope	Hoop	Ball	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Yulia Raskina	Individual	9.900	9.908	9.908	9.908	39.624	2Q	9.908	9.791	9.983	9.916	39.548
Valeria Vatkina		9.750	9.733	9.775	9.800	39.058	6Q	9.791	9.750	9.666	9.750	38.957	8

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Clubs	Ribbons & Hoops	Total	Rank	Clubs	Ribbons & Hoops	Total	Rank
Tatyana Ananko Tatyana Belan Anna Glazkova Irina Ilyenkova Maria Lazuk Olga Puzhevich	Group	19.700	19.666	39.366	2Q	19.800	19.700	39.500

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ekaterina Karsten	Single sculls	7:47.73	1Q	BYE		7:40.36	2FA	7:28.14
Irina Bazilevskaya Marina Kuzhmar Olga Berezneva Marina Znak Yuliya Bichik Inessa Zakharevskaya Nataliya Gelakh Olga Tratsevskaya Valentina Khokhlova	Eights	6:19.02	3R	6:19.42	4FA	—N/a		6:13.57	4

Men

Women

Open

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Igor Basinski	10 m air pistol	583	4Q	682.7
	50 m pistol	569	2Q	663.3
Anatoli Klimenko	10 m air rifle	593	2Q	693.4	4
	50 m rifle three positions	1157	25	did not advance
Oleg Khvatsovas	25 m rapid fire pistol	586	5Q	682.4	6
Kanstantsin Lukashyk	10 m air pistol	577	15	did not advance
	50 m pistol	560	9	did not advance
Sergei Martynov	50 m rifle prone	598	2Q	700.3
	50 m rifle three positions	1164	9	did not advance
Georgi Nekhayev	10 m air rifle	588	18	did not advance
	50 m rifle prone	593	19	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Viktoria Chaika	10 m air pistol	381	11	did not advance
Oksana Kovtonovich	10 m air rifle	389	32	did not advance
Olga Pogrebniak	50 m rifle three positions	578	11	did not advance
	10 m air rifle	393	9	did not advance
Irina Shilova	50 m rifle three positions	574	20	did not advance
Yulia Sinyak	25 m pistol	584	4Q	685.9	4
Lalita Yauhleuskaya	25 m pistol	583	5Q	686.0
	10 m air pistol	381	11	did not advance

Men

Women

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yevgeny Shchetinin	Men's singles	Saive (BEL) L 1–3	Morales (CHI) W 3–0	2	did not advance					33
Vladimir Samsonov	Men's singles	BYE			Chang (TPE) W 3–0	Legout (FRA) W 3–0	Waldner (SWE) L 2–3	did not advance		5
Vladimir Samsonov Evgueni Chtchetinine	Men's doubles	Håkansson / Karlsson (SWE) L 0–2	Zhuang / Sweeris (USA) W 2–0	2	—N/a	did not advance				17

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tatyana Kostromina	Women's singles	Svensson (SWE) L 2–3	Al-Najar (JOR) W 3–0	2	did not advance					33
Veronika Pavlovich		Boileau (FRA) L 0–3	Ghatak (IND) W 3–0	2	did not advance					33
Viktoria Pavlovich		Svensson (SWE) L 1–3	El-Alfy (EGY) W 3–0	2	did not advance					33
Tatyana Kostromina Viktoria Pavlovich	Women's doubles	Svensson / Svensson (SWE) W 2–1	Abdul-Aziz / Othman (EGY) W 2-0	1Q	—N/a	Eun-Sil / Eun-Mi (KOR) L 0-3	did not advance			9

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Max Mirnyi	Singles	Hewitt (AUS) W 6-3, 6–3	Vaněk (CZE) W 6-7, 6–4, 11-9	Zabaleta (ARG) W 7–6, 6–2	Haas (GER) L 6-4, 5-7, 3-6	did not advance		5
Vladimir Voltchkov		Gaudio (ARG) L 7–6, 4-6, 6-1	Di Pasquale (FRA) L 2–6, 2-6	did not advance
Max Mirnyi Vladimir Voltchkov	Doubles	—N/a	Kulti / Tillström (SWE) W 6–3, 4-4r	Clément / Escudé (FRA) W 6–4, 7-6	Corretja / Costa (ESP) L 7–6, 3-6, 5-7	did not advance		5

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Olga Barabanschikova	Singles	Wartusch (AUT) L 4–6, 2-6	did not advance
Natasha Zvereva		Salerni (ARG) L 3–6, 6-4, 2-6	did not advance
Olga Barabanschikova Natasha Zvereva	Doubles	—N/a	Wartusch / Schett (AUT) W 6–2, 6–2	Martínez / Vicario (ESP) W 6–4, 7-5	Mandula / Marosi (HUN) W 6–3, 7-5	Boogert / Oremans (NED) L 3–6, 2-6	Callens / Monami (BEL) L 6-4, 4–6, 1-6	4

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Vitaly Derbenyov	– 56 kg	125.0	5	150.0	9	275.0	7
Gennady Oleshchuk	– 62 kg	142.5	3	175.0	3	317.5
Sergey Lavrenov	– 69 kg	157.5	3	182.5	7	340.0
Pavel Bazuk	– 94 kg	167.5	16	197.5	16	365.0	16

Women

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Herman Kantoyeu	−54 kg	García (CUB) W 7-1	Donbaev (KGZ) L 2-5	—N/a	1Q	Mamyrov (KAZ) W 4-2	Henson (USA) L 0-4	Kardanov (GRE) L 4-5	4
Aleksandr Guzov	−58 kg	O'Brien (AUS) W 14-4	Pürevbaatar (MGL) L 1-3	—N/a	2	did not advance			8
Mikalai Savin	−63 kg	Hayrapetyan (ARM) L 4-7	Boburbekov (KGZ) W 4-1	—N/a	2	did not advance			12
Sergey Demchenko	−69 kg	Johnston (AUS) W 10-0	Askarov (KGZ) W 3-0	Veliyev (KAZ) W WO	1Q	BYE	Gitinov (RUS) L 2-3	McIlravy (USA) L 1-3	4
Beibulat Musaev	−85 kg	Saitiev (RUS) L 1-4	Praporshchikov (AUS) W 13-0	—N/a	2	did not advance			9
Aleksandr Shemarov	−97 kg	Szerda (AUS) W 7-0	Schmeichel (CAN) W 5–0	Garmulewicz (POL) L 2-3	2	did not advance			7
Aleksey Medvedev	−130 kg	Kovalevsky (KGZ) W 3-2	Xingqiang (CHN) W 3-0	BYE	1Q	Rodríguez (CUB) L 0-4	BYE	McCoy (USA) L WO	6

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Igor Petrenko	−58 kg	Mnatsakanyan (ARM) W 4-2	Gruenwald (USA) L 0-4	—N/a	2	did not advance			13
Vitaly Zhuk	−63 kg	Beilin (ISR) L 0-1	Kurbanov (UZB) L 1-6	—N/a	3	did not advance			17
Vladimir Kopytov	−69 kg	Adzhi (UKR) L 0-3	Glushkov (RUS) L 0-11	Wolny (POL) L PA	4	did not advance			17
Viachaslau Makaranka	−76 kg	Manukyan (UKR) L 1-12	Michalkiewicz (POL) W 4-1	Iutana (SAM) W 42-0	2	did not advance			7
Valery Tsilent	−85 kg	Menshchikov (RUS) W 3-0	Oliynyk (UKR) L 1-6	—N/a	1Q	Vakhtangadze (GEO) L 5-6	BYE	Méndez (CUB) W 4-0	4
Sergey Lishtvan	−97 kg	Ežerskis (LTU) L 1–3	Fkiri (TUN) W 10-0	Saldadze (UKR) L 2-5	3	did not advance			9
Dmitry Debelka	−130 kg	Giorgadze (GEO) W 3-0	Bengtsson (SWE) W 2–1	BYE	1Q	BYE	Karelin (RUS) L 0–3	Evseichik (ISR) W 1-0

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